with Olga Tokarczuk, Novelist, Nobel laureate
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Add to calendarTokarczuk and her translator argue in public about three fragments, with the audience voting on each one.
The translator won two out of three. Tokarczuk conceded the first, disputed the last over dinner, and has since changed her mind again.
A trained psychologist from Sulechów, Poland, Tokarczuk writes what she calls the 'constellation novel', books built from fragments the reader assembles. Her work has been fiercely debated at home and celebrated abroad, and her Nobel citation praised an imagination that 'represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life'.
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with Olga Tokarczuk, Novelist, Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2018
What clinical training leaves in a novelist: standing inside someone's reasoning long enough to describe it without mockery.
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In conversationUpcomingDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead · Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2009
with Olga Tokarczuk, Novelist, Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2018
On books built out of fragments, and how a reader learns to hold a shape that is never stated.
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